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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 18/02/2026

Much more challenging to maintain two separate view layers in parallel, but feels like the only good customer-centric option when implementing such significant changes to tools that customers need to be stable and predictable.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 18/02/2026

Just used @flippercloud.io to enable customers of @fireside.fm to opt-in to a preview of an overhauled Fireside UI after months of heads down work. And if they aren't ready for it just yet, they can opt right back out and use the old UI while we iterate and improve based on customer feedback.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 25/11/2025

Pool. Chess. Running. You gotta stop being so good at everything!

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 25/11/2025

Pretty obvious-in-hindsight hack, but after working on some larger initiatives that couldn't just be easily shipped daily, the morale boost of working on things that _can_ be shipped daily is priceless. Finding ways to break things down in a way that they're shipped daily can work wonders.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 29/10/2025

Spent about ~30 minutes on an annoyingly squeaky/creaky foot. Re-did some screws with fresh Loctite. Added some teflon lubricant on the plastic bits. WD-40’d a couple of spots. Swapped out my sleeve for a new one. Every step feels ~30% better now. If only it was that easy for real body parts.

Photo of a Fillauer AllPro XTS prosthetic foot laying horizontally on a desk with an out-of-focus can of WD-40 in the background.

Photo of a Fillauer AllPro XTS prosthetic foot standing horizontally on a desk with the Fillauer F in focus.

Top-down photo of a Fillauer AllPro XTS prosthetic foot laying on a desk with half of the foot shell on and half off below it.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 24/10/2025

Perfect storm of events and timing sucked the excitement and enjoyment out of sharing for me this last year. Really appreciate all the folks out there sharing and lighting/stoking the fire. It requires so much time and effort share your curiosity, learning, and excitement, but it’s so contagious.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 27/07/2025

You write tests to catch bugs. You use feature flags to survive them in production.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 21/07/2025

Just slayed the API endpoint performance for flipper cloud. Added memcached around the adapter used to deliver gate data. Should save me $2-3k/month.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 20/07/2025

Only because "Limpin' ain't easy" doesn't fit.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 20/07/2025

Looking into some new shoes. Hashtag amputee humor.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 23/06/2025

Can totally relate on how hard to resist fun activities even when not feeling well. Hope you’re feeling better soon!

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 12/06/2025

That @brilliantcrank.com is so hot right now. Love seeing his voice and perspective in my feed reader. Keep it up, sir. You’re inspiring some of us to write and explore again.

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Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com · 11/06/2025

Next Thursday, I'm excited to dive into Active Record's internals and show you what's going on in there. Let's level you up, dispel some of the magic and have you more confident when you're using Active Record! lu.ma/7wqif0ap

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Yes, you can read Active Record's code · Zoom · Luma

What's in Active Record, is it just tons of magic? tl;dr: I'm a former Rails core member showing you in this live session how the parts of Active Record you…

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 02/06/2025

Definitely accurate, and, in my mind, automatically assumed/implied with any aspect of the government “saving money”.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 02/06/2025

Reducing access to help and resources that can enable people to regain mobility and control over their lives is absolutely a net negative for individuals and society. Just another way to further diminish and marginalize yet another already disadvantaged group under the guise of saving money.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 02/06/2025

“On Friday, May 30th, the Presidential Budget eliminated funding for the National Limb Loss Resource Center for federal fiscal year 2026…” Choosing to amputate was an incredibly difficult decision due to the lack of information and resources, but it was absolutely the right decision for me.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2025

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 06/05/2025

Stumbled across “azimuthal equidistant projection” maps, and they’re fascinating both from a geographic standpoint and from the way they show how looking at the same information with a different perspective/context can drastically impact how we perceive something. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth...

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Azimuthal equidistant projection - Wikipedia

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 04/03/2025

Had a really fun conversation about my meandering and relatively broad career path in consulting, SaaS, writing, and all that with @jeremysmith.co and @bjessbrown.com. Hadn't ever really thought about how it all connected until they asked.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 01/03/2025

We had our final game of the season last night. Coaching has consumed every spare moment and emotion and not always been convenient or easy, but it’s enjoyable beyond belief. Looking forward to a less hectic schedule for a while, but still going to miss it something fierce until next season.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 14/02/2025

How it’s going right after the last two weeks had felt like Spring was already here. And it’s wet and heavy snow with more in its way. Crummy time to be sick and struggling and miss out on a pow day.

Snow report showing 17” of snow in the last 12 hours.

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🎱 Josh Branchaud ✨ @jbranchaud.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You know that project you've been meaning to get to for months? It's a thorn in your side, but more urgent stuff keeps coming up... I can take that off your plate. I'm still looking to book one more client for the spring. Send me a dm and we can talk about what that'd look like.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 20/01/2025

I also wondered about that, but since it was first on the list, I just assumed there was a very good reason.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 16/01/2025

I'm on here too. (Pretty sure I wasn't on the list.) Great post about AEA and ABA, by the way. Can only imagine the ride, but really appreciate sharing the story and what y'all have done for the community through the years. ❤️

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 15/01/2025

Post a picture of yourself from a different era. Early 20's. Still had both legs. Could still dunk. Could never spend enough time on a basketball court.

Photo of Garrett jumping from the middle of the lane for a finger-roll layup. Right arm is extended straight up shortly after jumping with two defenders looking on from below while moving out of the way.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 14/01/2025

As someone who came from more of a design and front-end background, I put off digging into the Rails source code for far too long. Once I did, everything became easier to understand and reason about. Having a guide like Kasper in this format would have been huge. bsky.app/profile/kasp...

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Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com · 13/01/2025

If you want to take your Rails career to the next level, you need to start digging into Rails. Don't sleep on becoming a better code reader, it's a force multiplier (ask me how I know lol). Sign up here: lu.ma/dv5yvj4n

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Guiding You through the Rails Source · Zoom · Luma

What problem does this guided tour solve? Rails is your app's biggest dependency and you probably don't know what's going on in there. There's features you're…

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 07/01/2025

Cold but fair. In my case it was driven more by social network reduction in general rather than any kind of moral judgement about Facebook in particular.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 07/01/2025

Instead of React as the new Flash, the pace of CSS improvements is making a case that JavaScript in general might be the new Flash. It doesn't seem wild to imagine that ten years from now, sites could still provide most of the same functionality while barely needing JavaScript at all.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 07/01/2025

Leaving behind access to the array of amputee/disability groups was absolutely the most difficult thing about quitting it. Those communities helped so much when navigating amputation.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 07/01/2025

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 07/01/2025

My software development philosophy: 1. Minimize external dependencies. 2. Actively upgrade dependencies. "Dependency" is just another word for "save a little time now in order to permanently increase your workload by committing to monitor changes and responsibly update it in perpetuity."

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 07/01/2025

Really good shoehorns are underrated, but they need to be hefty metal ones that don't bend and are at least a foot long. Having several and keeping them stashed throughout the house is one of those small changes that makes a big difference.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 07/01/2025

To be fair, that wasn't just from Rails. It was also from going through all of the assets and streamlining the build pipeline to only what was needed.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 31/12/2024

And, while I'm still becoming familiar, it presumably falls back to diffs of the encrypted files in contexts without access to the keys. (i.e. GitHub web interface.) Can't help with the readability of pull requests (and probably shouldn't for security reasons), but it can help when writing PR's.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 31/12/2024

TIL: `rails credentials:diff --enroll` (and `--disenroll`) Makes local diffs of encrypted credentials files display as diffs of the un-encrypted text instead of diffs of the encrypted gibberish. Helps reduce friction of seeing what changed in credentials when merging or navigating merge conflicts.

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nateberkopec.bsky.social @nateberkopec.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Noah Gibbs (codefolio, YJIT team, Rebuilding Rails author) has passed away. His big dream in life was to help build the Ruby community up. He wanted to be like the folks who worked to create the railroads during the industrial revolution.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 24/12/2024

🎙️ Like clockwork, episode 3 is out. About 5-10 in we hit our stride and talk time tracking and prioritization. Merry Christmas! standinginthefire.fireside.fm/3

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 24/12/2024

Decorating Christmas cookies amputee-style.

A Christmas sugar cookie shaped like a person, but the left leg is missing.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 22/12/2024

Anybody know of online eBook stores where purchases benefit your local book store? Libro.fm and Bookshop.org do it, but I can’t find anywhere selling ePubs that does it.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 22/12/2024

I hear you. I definitely like that cleaner syntax that is more Phlex-like, but, in practice, I’ve found that I prefer ERb at that point. I do really like the idea of Phlex being less forgiving than HTML (i.e. closing tags), but not enough to add the extra indirection in most cases.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 21/12/2024

I don't see any major issues with it, but it's not something I could see myself using much. By the time the tags/markup would be complicated enough, I'd personally prefer to just switch to HTML. In a way, the current state helps clarify whether to use Ruby or ERb for a partial.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 17/12/2024

Only been a couple of months with @fireside.fm, but it’s solidifying two theories I’ve had for a while. 1. I’d prefer to buy a small and profitable SaaS app rather than start from scratch again. 2. I’d prefer not to be solo on the front-lines. Partners collaborating on the day-to-day is fantastic.

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Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com · 17/12/2024

We’re having a lot of fun sharing our un-filtered thoughts about where to take @fireside.fm as we learn more about podcasting and production. We have lots of collective experience building software, but we’re a clean slate with regards to podcasting and production. standinginthefire.fireside.fm/2

standinginthefire.fireside.fm

Making Podcasting Less of a Pain

The team discusses challenges in podcast production, including editing friction, YouTube integration, and customer feedback. They share ideas for simplifying workflows and highlight recent improvement...

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